In the podcast Sam Altman has mentioned “[Meta has] started making these, like, giant offers to a lot of people on our team,” also adding “You know, like, $100 million signing bonuses, more than that [in] compensation per year […] I’m really happy that, at least so far, none of our best people have decided to take him up on that.”
The OpenAI CEO said he believes his employees made the assessment that OpenAI had a better chance of achieving AGI, and in the future. He also said he believes Meta’s focus on high compensation packages for employees, rather than its mission of delivering AGI, would likely not create a great culture.
Meta has reportedly tried to poach one of OpenAI’s lead researchers, Noam Brown, as well as Google’s AI architect, Koray Kavukcuoglu. Yet, both efforts were unsuccessful.
Sam Altman went on to say he believes OpenAI’s culture of innovation has been a major key to its success, leading to Meta’s “current AI efforts have not worked as well as they hoped”. The OpenAI CEO said he also respects many things about Meta, yet he noted he doesn’t “think they’re a company that’s great at innovation.”. Later on in the podcast, Altman also said that he believes it’s not enough for companies to catch up on AI – they have to innovate to stay ahead truly.
The CEO of OpenAI’s comments also highlight some of the challenges that Meta has to overcome in order to build out a successful AI superintelligence lab. However, aside from bringing on Wang, Meta also announced last week that it has invested a great sum of money into Wnag’s former company, Scale AI.
The company has also reportedly nabbed a few star researchers, such as Google DeepMind’s Jack Rae and Sesame AI’s Johan Schalkwyk. Yet, there is more work ahead. In the next years, Meta will have to staff up its new AI team while OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind operate at full speed.
In the next months, OpenAI is expected to release an OpenAI model that’s likely to set Meta back in the AI race even further. Later on in the podcast, Sam Altman described an AI-powered social media feed that seems likely to be Meta’s apps. The OpenAI CEO also said he’s curious about exploring a social media app that has the ability to use artificial intelligence to deliver custom feeds based on what users want, rather than the default, reported TechCrunch.
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